It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a moment of intense illumination, or for a sudden realization or insight. For example: Suddenly, all the pieces of the puzzle came together in a flash of light.
One culminates in a golden hand that meets another hand in a flash of light.
On the famously abrupt final chord, he's aloft in a flash of light.
artillery shells packed with Russian C-4 explosives detonated, in a flash of light, black smoke, flying dirt.
Then they release their energy in a flash of light that sends the communication signal off to its next destination.
The meteoroid exploded in a flash of light, and the cloud trail that it left behind stretched across the sky.
It has the opposite electrical charge to matter and, when it meets its matter counterpart, the two annihilate in a flash of light.
IN MARCH 1999, a flash of light arrived from a distant and anonymous galaxy in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
The formula for many of these musical numbers from the King-Goffin-Weil-Mann back catalogue is the same: the songs are played in part around a piano as the writers work on them and then, in a flash of lights and a few quick changes, the groups that made the songs famous pop up to sing them in full.
But it's hard to imagine Bruce and the E Street Band ever having been the same if the change didn't come and the Big Man never joined the band in a flash of lighting on a stormy night in a seedy club in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
This observation is unlike what is reported in a beetle system, where there is no change in abdominal pulsation in response to a flash of light or mechanical stimulation (Metspalu et al., 2002).
"These amateur astronomers – Christopher Go in the Philippines and Anthony Wesley in Australia – saw a flash of light lasting about two seconds, which is the first time such a small object has been observed impacting Jupiter," said co-author Imke de Pater, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
